Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao and Liu Bei help me to ascend the throne

Chapter 115 The murderer is Guan Changsheng!
In the afternoon when the sparrows were singing, the sun shone in the quiet courtyard. This is the Qin Mansion located in Nancheng, Jieliang County.

Now, the new "master" here is in the hands, which is related to the justice of hundreds or thousands of people, and whether the sky in Xieliang County can see the sun.

In the afternoon, when the gaze came in a little bit, countless civil servants were writing furiously, writing all the crimes of the county magistrate Yan He and the tyrannical Qin Niu with great concentration, until it was too difficult to write.

hard to imagine.

Yesterday... County Magistrate Yan and Master Qin, who were still stars, will be nailed to the pillar of shame forever today.

Every clerk is full of energy, and every commoner tells the grievances of these years tearfully, the wall is knocked down and everyone pushes it, and the drum is broken and everyone beats it. This kind of drama has been the same since ancient times.

Liu Yu and Xun Yu stood in a water pavilion in the Qin Mansion.

Xun Yu had been busy for half a day, so he came out for a walk, and just as he was walking, he saw Liu Yu.

"Are you tired?"

Seeing Xun Yu's troubled appearance, Liu Yu felt a little distressed.

At his age, he shouldn't have endured so much, nor should he have seen the darkness in this world.

"Not tired." Xun Yu's voice was weak. "The reason why I follow my virtuous brother is because in the eternal night, even a gleam of light will force you to follow this light until you die! Now that you can end the darkness with your own strength, you can return the glory of this corner." The common people have a blue sky, shouldn't this be the original intention of my brother and I?"

Liu Yu couldn't help but speak out what was in her heart. "But this will be very tiring and dangerous. This is just a small county, but how many counties like this do Dahan have, and how many prefectures and counties that are larger than the county are still wrapped in darkness? Still the same sentence, This is a mountain of knives, but also a sea of ​​fire."

"Haha..." Hearing this, Xun Yu smiled, and he turned to Liu Yu solemnly. "Your brother is so knowledgeable, how can you not know what a gentleman is described in the "Impossible Pian" written by Xunzi, the ancestor of my Xun family?"

Without waiting for Liu Yu to reply, Xun Yu continued: "Saving the world is the virtue of respecting people and the beauty of people. A gentleman must adapt to the times and respond with righteousness, and the bottom line of this response is 'righteousness'!"

Hearing this, Liu Yu paused for a moment, and also uttered a sentence.

"Confucius said to achieve benevolence, Mencius said to obtain righteousness, and only when righteousness is exhausted, so benevolence is supreme. Reading the books of sages, what have you learned? From now on, the common people have almost nothing to be ashamed of."

This is the words in Wen Tianxiang's "Jue Ming Ci Kong Yue Cheng Ren" by Wen Tianxiang in the later Song Dynasty.

The atmosphere was heightened here, and Liu Yu chanted casually.

Unexpectedly, Xun Yu immediately bowed his hands: "Your brother has learned from Taoism, but he also has such a profound understanding of Confucianism. This is what Brother Yu admires the most! I only hope that I can mention it like the words of my brother, "Cheng Ren , to take righteousness', even if it is to step on this mountain of swords, it must make the big man in the dark glow again."

Liu Yu almost wanted to say something more compelling...

For example, it is still Wen Tianxiang's "Who has never died in life since ancient times? Keep a loyal heart to reflect history."

Never thought, right now.

Zhang Fei's roaring voice came out again.

"Are you all idiots? So many county soldiers can't even look down on an individual?"

"What's the matter? Can Yan and that dog official turn into butterflies and fly away?"

hear here...

Liu Yu and Xun Yu felt that something was wrong, and quickly walked towards Zhang Fei.

After asking, I found out that it was Yan He who ran away.

The person guarding outside his house was stunned by a blunt object from nowhere, and Yan He ran away without a sound... However, he asked everywhere at the door to make sure he didn't leave the house, and the entire courtyard was searched, but there was no trace ...That's strange, it can't really fly away, can it?
Liu Yu was also worried about Xun Yu, so she didn't ask these questions...

I never thought that a wise man will make a mistake if he thinks about it.

"Oops..." Xun Yu seemed to suddenly think of something. "Last night, there was a fire in the government office. I asked why there was no water in the tank, and there was no water in the well. Yan He prevaricated. Today... I saw that there was no water in the well of the Qin residence, so Yan He just disappeared..."

"Wen Ruo said that the well is weird?" Liu Yu also realized it, and immediately planned to send someone to investigate.

never thought...

at this time.

"Brother Liu... finally... finally came back to see you!"

An extremely hoarse and hurried voice suddenly came out.

Liu Yu and Xun Yu turned around, it was Liu Bei.

On that day, Liu Yu sent Liu Bei as a bait to attract the enemy and captured a thief along the way. Liu Bei made a contribution.

After returning, he was not arranged to perform other tasks.

It was also just now that Liu Yu was worried about Guan Changsheng, so he sent him and Zhen Yi to guard in front of the prison gate.

how…

Not waiting for Liu Yu to think about it.

Liu Bei's voice has been heard. "It's not good, Yan He and Qin Niu were killed in the outskirts of the city...near the Qiantianwu cottage, there are now crowds of people there, and there is a sign on the carriage - the murderer, Guan Changsheng is also!"

"what?"

Liu Yu and Xun Yu almost spoke in unison.

Liu Bei's words contained so much information that they both felt their scalps tingling.

Isn't Guan Changsheng in prison?How did he appear there?

Where did Yan He and Qin Niu end up?
How could there be such a line of words on the carriage?

These... each one is too unbelievable.

Both Xun Yu and Liu Yu seemed a little frightened, but Zhang Fei immediately laughed and shouted: "The two birdmen, that red face killed you well! You killed them happily, this is for the sake of the people. harmed!"

"Yide..."

Xun Yu and Liu Yu were still surprised, but Liu Bei quickly explained.

"This is not good, this is bad!"

Zhen Yi also added a sentence. "There's a big mess."

"A dog official? A bully? He should have been killed. How could the red face kill him? How could it be so bad?" Zhang Fei scratched his head, still unable to understand.

Liu Yu let out a sigh of "ah". "Even if it's a bully, a dog official, even if the two of them are heinous people, but the government hasn't judged yet, so he can't be the one who killed him!"

Liu Yu blurted out, and Xun Yu added an explanation: "Guan Changsheng is a white body, so he can't enforce the law for the government, let alone such a high-profile, such and such, everything Liu Guanzhu did to save him is... all in vain Already!"

what…

Zhang Fei seemed to understand, he knocked on the forehead, "How can this be done?"

"Go to the scene first!" Liu Yu ordered immediately.

Obviously here, Xun Yu has the highest official title, but inexplicably, he seems to be the real one who makes the final decision.

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...

It was just a sunny day, but suddenly it rained heavily, as if the heavens intended to wash away the blood on this side of the land.

outside the city...

Farmers hiding from the rain in tea stalls and wine shops talked about it.

"I heard that the dog officer Yan He and the bully Qin Niu were killed? On the carriage there is a message 'The murderer is Guan Changsheng!' Who is this Guan Changsheng?"

"He was framed by the Qin government a few days ago, and he was supposed to be beheaded at noon today. The new postmaster had cleared his grievances for him, but who would have thought that he would escape from the prison first, and chase him to the outskirts of the city. Qi Dao Luo cut off the heads of Yan Liang and Qin Niu, revenge is revenge, but isn't this another lawsuit?"

"The dog killer will also get into a lawsuit?"

"Otherwise? Who allowed us little people to kill the dog official?"

"Then... Guan Changsheng is not at a loss?"

"It's a big loss. Just for the sake of breath, I have to bear a life lawsuit again. It's not worth it, it's not worth it..."

murmuring rain...

The heavy rain caused a mist to form on the ground, and more and more people were hiding in restaurants and tea stalls. Their shoes and socks were completely wet, and they were trembling involuntarily.

I can only divert my attention by talking about "Guan Changsheng kills the dog official" to warm myself up.

at this time…

In a courtyard not far from the restaurant in the outskirts of the city, a man in a bamboo hat turned over from the beam. He sneaked in quietly and was looking through the desk case and drawers.

Suddenly, the man in the bamboo hat felt a chill behind him, and with his keen sense of smell from years of martial arts training, he immediately realized that there was someone behind him. There were a few sparks in the attic.

The two fought against each other for several moves, the blade was sharp, and the ax was also extremely fierce, but it seemed that the two of them deliberately kept their hands, and the sparks between the sword and ax were fierce, shining like the sunset.

"Are you looking for this?" While speaking, Xu Huang held an ax in one hand, and took out a bamboo slip engraved with the word "Spring and Autumn" from his pocket with the other. "I knew that no matter how far you run, as long as this "Spring and Autumn" is here, you can't run far!"

Xu Huang held "Spring and Autumn" across his chest, as if he could see through the state of mind of the person in front of him.

The man in front of him also took off his bamboo hat, his pair of red phoenix eyes showed a resolute light...

This person is not Guan Yu, who else?

"As expected of you, Gongming!"

Guan Yu frowned and looked at Xu Huang in front of him. "Give me the book."

Xu Huang grabbed "Spring and Autumn" tightly, without any intention of handing it over. "Then can you give me an explanation?"

"This is not the place for explanation."

"Anywhere will do, you choose!"

While talking, "Tap Tat Tat"... There was the sound of hurried footsteps not far away, it seemed to be a group of people, most of them were officers and soldiers.

Before Guan Yu could speak, Xu Huang spoke first.

"Walk?"

"go!"

After getting an affirmative answer, the two quickly walked out of the courtyard. With each whistle, two horses, one black and one yellow, roared towards them. The two of them turned on their horses skillfully. Before the officers and soldiers arrived, they had already disappeared into the rain and fog!

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Six, no… seven corpses, already laid out side by side.

Two of them were headless corpses, four were pierced through the chest by a big knife, and the last one was shot by a crossbow arrow... When it comes to the state of death, one is more miserable than the other.

Now, they are placed on the ground one by one, and they look extraordinarily dense in the rain.

Under the coir raincoat, Liu Yu, Xun Yu, Liu Bei, Zhen Yi, Zhang Fei... are all here, and there are still bloodstains flowing at the feet...

Some of the corpses were still bleeding, as if it would never dry up.

After the autopsy, the two foremen each whispered something in Xun Yu's ear.

After the report was over, Xun Yu said to Liu Yu.

"My dear brother, among the seven people, six of them have the same murder weapon, a long knife. Judging from their clothes, besides Yan He and Qin Niu, their identities also include two thugs from the Qin family. Two thieves in the dock."

"As for the other person, the fatal injury was a crossbow that passed through his chest. It is impossible to tell whether it is related to Guan Changsheng, but...his identity..."

At the end of the speech, Xun Yu hesitated to speak.

"Wen Ruo just tell me... I need more information."

Liu Yu groaned lightly.

Only then did Xun Yu truthfully say: "This man is the warden of the prison, and he was supposed to escort Guan Changsheng to the execution ground, but...but..."

Liu Yu heard the deep meaning in Xun Yu's words.

"Wen Ruo suspects that the jailer let him out."

"This needs to be investigated, but... the current situation is mostly like this." Xun Yu frowned. "But since Guan Changsheng was released, why was he killed?"

"Guan Changsheng may not be the one who killed him. Maybe there are more mysterious forces involved in this matter." Liu Yu's brows also gradually frowned. "But why Guan Changsheng? He hasn't offended other dignitaries! His identity and status don't seem to be enough to make people spend so much effort."

Liu Yu was a little puzzled...

at this time.

"Xun Duyou, it's not good..."

Another county official hurried over and whispered something in Xun Yu's ear as usual.

However, different from the previous report, this time Xun Yu's face changed suddenly, from calm to terrified in an instant!

Yes, it's scary...

Even from his eyes, Liu Yu read a little fear.

"call…"

With a long breath, Xun Yu turned to Liu Yu and spoke immediately. "Brother, it's not good. There are still more than a thousand people killed in Thieves. Except for two hundred bandits, the rest are old, weak, women and children...all died of poisoning."

"what?"

Liu Yu's pupils widened instantly.

It's not that the two hundred thieves in Stealing Skywood...

But the old and young women and children among them, so many people were silenced?
Who... who is so cruel?
Not only Liu Yu, but everyone showed panic when they heard the news.

Zhen Yi subconsciously said, "Could it be... Guan..."

"Impossible!" Liu Yu interrupted immediately. "Guan Changsheng will never kill women, children, and children!"

"That…"

"Go to Jietianwu first!" Liu Yu ordered immediately.

Under the leadership of the officers and soldiers, a group of people quickly went to the Thieves Dock on the mountain.

A thousand people died!

This must be a big case that shocked the whole big man.

In the same way, if all these thousand lives are on Guan Yu's body, then...even if Liu Yu wants to pull him up, how can he pull him up?

Not only is it difficult to pull, Guan Yu is now... an extremely hot potato!

For a moment, Liu Yu's face was extremely ugly, while climbing the mountain, he was running in his mind rapidly.

Breaking…

This dead end?Can it still be broken?
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The sound of the rain is murmuring, and in the Fen River, a fast boat is heading south in the rain.

The boatman is Xu Huang's friend, together with him, carrying three people and two horses, they went down the river at an extremely fast speed.

In the cabin, Xu Huang looked excited.

"You mean? You only killed six people? Then you didn't kill Xu in prison?"

"You know Guan's temperament. He will never kill his benefactor, and he will never kill women, children, and children. Yan He and Qin Niu are on the same side, oppressing the good, and should be killed! He deserves to be killed! The thieves who steal Tianwu pretend to be barbarians and rob good people, they should be killed even more! But Guan has never killed his benefactor!"

Guan Yu's tone was extremely firm. "Prison Xu rescued me from prison. It's too late for me to be grateful. How could I do anything to him?"

and many more…

Guan Yu's words made Xu Huang suddenly think of something.

"What did you just say?"

"It's too late for Guan to be grateful, how could he do anything to him?"

"One more sentence?"

"Prisoner Xu rescued me from prison, he is my benefactor!"

Hearing this, Xu Huang seemed to think of something suddenly, and got up suddenly, but the cabin was not big, and his head hit the beam of the ship all of a sudden.

Xu Huang closed one eye subconsciously, as if his head was in pain... While holding his head, he asked, "Why did Prisoner Xu send you out?"

Guan Yu answered directly.

"I'm about to be beheaded at noon today. He sent me out of prison to let me use this useful body to do something for the elders in my hometown! It's not in vain to be a martial artist, and it's not in vain to walk in this world!"

Guan Yu's tone was very flat... so flat that in his opinion, this matter was a matter of course...

"So, he specially arranged for you to escape from prison? The horse he gave you? The knife he gave you? He asked you to come here to kill that dog official?"

Xu Huang asked in surprise.

Guan Yu nodded. "What's wrong with this? It's dead anyway? Why can't we bring in two backs? And give the people here a piece of blue sky!"

Xu Huang's emotions became agitated again.

"Wrong, wrong! Big mistake!"

Xu Huang explained again and again: "You know that Yulin Guanliu Guanzhu and Xun Duyou from the new imperial court have rehabilitated you, and even found out the criminal evidence of Yan He and Qin Niu. Their crimes... are sure to die!"

"What?" Guan Yu was taken aback, no matter what, he would never have thought of this level.

"Wrong, all wrong!" Xu Huang shook his head repeatedly. "My fellow villager certainly doesn't know this, but he... he still sends you out and asks you to kill Yan He and Qin Niu, this... this..."

"This must be...you were bewitched by someone with a heart, and you want to kill that dog official, so that the case can no longer be pursued, and you will be charged with all the crimes! This is...this is killing with a knife!"

Authorities fans...

Guan Yu was still kept in the dark, and Xu Huang had roughly figured out the whole story.

Prisoner Xu is his hometown, and both of them have the same surname Xu, they are of the same clan...

How is Xu prison's temperament?Xu Huang understands best!

Under the influence of interests, he was deceived and bewitched by others, and then persuaded Guan Yu to kill someone with a knife. After the incident was completed, he was murdered and silenced... Finally, it is very possible to blame Guan Yu.

Xu Huang felt that he had gradually approached the truth.

However, it is useless to get close to the truth. With the deaths of Yan He and Qin Niu, this case has been lost.

It is impossible to find out who is bewitching Xu to prison!
Who is behind the scenes?
Not to mention Xu's life in prison, how can Guan Yu kill these six lives alone?
This…

This…

"Changsheng, what are you going to do?" Clearing up the misunderstanding, Xu Huang quickly asked Guan Yu's future plans.

"Before killing Yanhe and Qin Niu, I happened to hear their conversation clearly in the carriage. Today's 'decapitated wine' contains snake venom. I can't live for seven days! Haha, why don't you be afraid of death? Just a place to bury!"

"But Gongming, if you give me another chance to make a choice, I will still kill these two thieves to vent my anger. Guan will not regret this matter!"

The more he faced the choice of life and death, the calmer Guan Yu became.

"Snake venom?" Xu Huang didn't expect that there is another layer... "Since it is poisoned, there must be an antidote. The most urgent thing is to cure your poison!"

"Forget it, who will treat a fugitive criminal with several lives on his back?" Guan Yu said in a word quite freely.

"Longevity..." Xu Huang still wanted to persuade.

Guan Yu flicked his sleeves. "Guan came alone, went alone, worthy of the sky, worthy of the earth, no regrets! After going ashore, Gongming will part ways with me, and it is wrong to be implicated because of Guan."

"no!"

Xu Huang's tone was even more excited.

Guan Yu stroked his long beard. "Life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky, I am in a dead end, Gongming should not force it."

This…

Xu Huang lowered his head, although he didn't like to hear what Guan Yu said, and he didn't want to hear it, but it was an ironclad fact.

This round is destined to be a dead end.

and many more…

Suddenly, Xu Huang thought of something.

"Changsheng, maybe... there is another person who can save you?"

"Who?"

"There is a willow man in Yulin with your head bowed!" Xu Huang's tone became firm and determined. "There are rumors that Liu Yu and Xun Duyou, the masters of the Yulin temple, came here together. Their purpose is to save you. If he can save you the first time, he will definitely be able to save you this time!"

"Perhaps, from our point of view, this is a dead end, but... from the view of the Yulin temple master, can Bao Buqi be easily solved? Just like how he completely eliminated the darkness and restored Xieliang County to a bright place?"

This…

Hearing this, Guan Yu breathed out lightly.

This was the umpteenth time in recent days that he had heard the title Yulin Guanzhu.

Came here to save yourself?

Really?
If this is the case, then Guan Yu, no matter what, how could he implicate this Yulin temple master?

"no!"

Guan Yu's tone was firm.

"If you can't do it, you have to do it!" Xu Huang frowned, and pointed to the "Spring and Autumn" in Guan Yu's hand, "Could it be that the heroes in this book... all only choose to escape and shrink back when encountering difficulties?"

This…

Guan Yu was silent.

As if, Xu Huang's words once again ignited the light of hope in his heart.

There is a willow man in Yulin who bows his head...

This dead end?Can he break it too?

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In Stealing Sky Dock, corpses lay all over the place.

Even if it is pouring rain, it cannot wash away the smell of death in the air.

It was the first time Liu Yu saw so many people die before her eyes.

Among them, there are damned thieves, but there are also thieves' families. In essence... Aren't they also poor people?
If they were not forced to do this, who would persuade their sons and husbands to become thieves?

This is the sad song of the times!
Xun Yu was also in a bad mood...

He looked at the corpses on the ground, and said first, "I'm afraid Guan Changsheng will have to bear these thousand corpses again!"

Zhang Fei was in a hurry.

"What can we do, even if we are suppressing bandits, so many women, children, old friends, and so many lives, the heads of those red faces are not enough to chop off!"

Liu Bei and Zhen Yi did not speak...

They chose to remain silent because... At this time, they knew that they couldn't think of any other way.

I had no choice but to cast my eyes on Liu Yu's side tacitly...

Jewels come first...

Everyone subconsciously feels that he has a way.

finally…

In "Thousands of calls", Liu Yu spoke.

Not emotion, not silent mourning, but an order.

"Two things, let's do it separately."

"First, find a way to find Guan Changsheng, and second, take him to Luoyang no matter what."

Liu Yu's words were beyond everyone's expectations.

"Why Luoyang?" Xun Yu asked first.

Liu Yu didn't bother to explain, but replied very firmly. "Believe me, take him to Luoyang, only Luoyang...he can find a chance of survival! You guys, did you hear that?"

- this is not a request...

——This is an unquestionable order!

Liu Yu emphasized again and again: "Guan Changsheng, if you enter Luoyang, you will live, and if you leave Luoyang, you will die!"

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(End of this chapter)